It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as... →
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.