Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.