“What a madly gay little wine, my dear!" M. Cliquot said, repressing, but not soon enough, a grimace of pain. "One would say a Tavel of a good year," I cried, "if one were a complete bloody fool." I did not say the second clause aloud.My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.”
“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and i can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
“Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.”
“... in the youth of middle age--square-shouldered, stocky, decisive, blatantly virile-- ...”
“Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”