A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

• The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
• Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
• I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
• Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
• All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
• If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
• My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.