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

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

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.