American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.