The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

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.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.

The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.