He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]