It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.

Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.