One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Oh, very good, ' interrupted Snape, his lip curling. 'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

The bond between America and Japan and the friendship between our two peoples runs very, very deep.

I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive?

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

She has the voice of God.Someone asked me what I liked about working on Glee - I get to hear Lea Michele sing - a lot .