Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.

It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you don't frighten the horses.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.