Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

As they say, it’s possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being

The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.