One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.

It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you don't frighten the horses.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

At every age we play the same game, just by different rules.

In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

To call me a woman is very nice.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.