Occupation: Writer Birth: October 15, 1881 Death: February 14, 1975
My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows..
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea..
That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will d….
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himsel….
Mere abuse is no criticism..
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the oth….
His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand ….
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general princip….
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects ….
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, ….
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing..
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes..
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire..
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini..
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action..
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else….
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments..
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste..
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely tempo….
The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, a….
So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life..