A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

Honestly, he could be adorable, and at the moment she had the feeling he wasn't even trying.

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.