That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.