Romance at short notice was her speciality.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.