AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

You can't have oil without oil spills.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.