Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

God gives wisdom to who dare ask for it.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

I like my coffee like I like my women - Black and Strong.

Wonder Woman was my first love, and now she’s [Charlotte Kemp Muhl) my last.

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.