I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.

Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures, and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.

Your angels know exactly how much information you can handle at any one moment.

This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

A lot has changed for Germany since 2010. Back then it was not certain that I would be the number one. Now I'm glad about the responsibility I take for the team.