The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

We shouldn't be fearful of failure because is not a monster as we think it is. It's just a training ground for those who are really striving for excellence in life.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.