Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

What happens if a car comes? We die.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

When making a deal with the Devil – Haggle.

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea. Enough people have seen the show. I mean, I'm in Patagonia and people recognize the show [ Narcos].

At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.