All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane...

Knowing Emily and knowing she attracts incidents as blue serge attracts lint, I grew apprehensive.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn’t at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

It’s as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we’ve said they are.

The French have no such expression as ‘killing time.’ In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is ‘passing time,’ which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

Women’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.