Surely, if life is good, it is good throughout its substance; we cannot separate men's activities from women's and say, these are worthy of praise and these unworthy.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.