Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.