“A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.”

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.”

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.”

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”