His Enemies Might Have Said Before That

The Main Question To A Novel Is -- Did It Amuse? Were You Surprised At Dinner Coming So Soon? Did You Mistake Eleven For Ten? Were You Too Late To Dress? And Did You Sit Up Beyond The Usual Hour? If A Novel Produces These Effects, It Is Good; If It Does Not -- Story, Language, Love, Scandal Itself Cannot Save It. It Is Only Meant To Please; And It Must Do That Or It Does Nothing.

The Thing About Performance, Even If It's Only An Illusion, Is That It Is A Celebration Of The Fact That We Do Contain Within Ourselves Infinite Possibilities.

When I Hear Any Man Talk Of An Unalterable Law, The Only Effect It Produces On Me Is To Convince Me That He Is An Unalterable Fool

Poverty Is No Disgrace To A Man, But It Is Confoundedly Inconvenient.

I Look Upon Switzerland As An Inferior Sort Of Scotland.