If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.

The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly.

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.