Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.