Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.