It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

I married beneath me. All women do.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.