The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.