Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.