Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Actions must have consequences.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .