My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself. |
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others. |
Never trust a man with short legs-his brains are too near his bottom |
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. |
Put somebody you love in the audience in your mind and work for them, |
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed. |
Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation. |
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. |
Sunburn is very becoming, but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill |
That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. |
The child was a keen bed-wetter. |
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals |
The sun never sets on Government House. |
There are bad times just around the corner,/ We can all look forward to despair, / It's as clear as crystal / From Bridlington to Bristol / That we can't save democracy / And we don't much care. |
There's always something fishy about the French. |