Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

There is room in history for all of us.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.

Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.