A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine.
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions- it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
Marriage is rather a silly habit.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay.
The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
There's no such thing as failure- just waiting for success.
They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
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