If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.

Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.