“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”

“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”

“It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.”

“The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.”

“I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.”

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

“Lots of people act well, but very few people talk well, which shows that talking ismuch the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also.”