 All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. |
| The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. |
| To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. |
| There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. |
| Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. |
| The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. |
| You will find my last words in the blue folder. |
| Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. |
| People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. |
| To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. |
| It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. |
| No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. |
| I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. |
| Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. |
| Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. |
