The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.