Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

Seek to know the power that is within you.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.