What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

The physician is only nature's assistant.

I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is