If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.

I am afraid that there is not much to be said in favour of either the lawyer or the journalist.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

I think after Christmas would be better for publication: I am hardly a Christmas present.

As I walked home through St. James Park the dawn was just breaking over London. The white swans were lying asleep on the polished lake, and the gaunt palace looked purple against the pale-green sky.