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.

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

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

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

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.

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

I'm scared all the time, " she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't, " Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.

...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open acknowledgment of his power to reduce her to helplessness by the pleasure he had the power to give her.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I'm in an interracial marriage.

Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being