Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.