It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.