You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
To mankind in general macbeth and lady macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The non-conformist conscience makes cowards of us all.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
