"The greatest of all sins is stupidity."
"When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else."
"To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British."
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."
"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
"He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
"Nothing succeeds like success."
"A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything."
"Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude."
"I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine."