If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster..

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death..

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake..

I have no face, only two profiles clapped together..

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious..

His modesty amounts to deformity..

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith..

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told..

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is ….

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people..

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to ob….

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening..

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius..

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano..

He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it..

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would b….

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out..

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow..

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything..

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a p….