I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor..

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them..

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageo….

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular..

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action..

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet..

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy..

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable..

There is no diplomacy like candor..

Every saint has a bee in his halo..

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do….

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle..

The art of life is to show your hand..

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room..

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks t….

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance..

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages..

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood..

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams..

There are two words for everything..