"I hate people who are not serious about meals."

"I like Americans. They are bright, amusing, and can be taught anything. Except the art of taking a joke, perhaps."

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

"I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."