If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.