The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.

Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.

You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future.

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!