Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

There will be a "Oops 100." They'll be plenty more oopses. I'm not perfect. I'm human.

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.