Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Quite definitely a Bingley

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

Differences don’t necessarily mean conflict, diversity is beautiful!

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.