One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is no use trying to sum people up.