The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

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.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

Ah hell. We had more fun in a week than those weenies had in a lifetime.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.