I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.