I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.

I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.