The past is behind us, " said Boudicca, "but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.

My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.

The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.

The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

The point is not to be the best, but to be the best you can be.

Never argue at the dinner table for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

The world is more exacting than God himself.

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond when you lost it.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.