Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

"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."

None love the bearer of bad news.

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.