Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

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.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.