People may talk as they like, but after all, London is London

Whenever you see a book frequently advertised, you may be pretty sure it is a bad one. If you see a puff quoted in the advertisement, you may be quite sure.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated.

Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced.

No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.