Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

I married beneath me. All women do.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

But sometimes they all craved a little bit of danger, of excitement, of meaning, even if only to reinforce how very comfortable and secure their lives really were.

It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.