We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

Supermarkets were introduced into Britain to destroy small businesses and create a sense of social alienation

You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.

What seems is not what is. Because, none knows what is left, when it is all right!

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women