Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell." He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.

To every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you: I am with you, and I will fight for you, and I will win for you!

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.