When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Excellence is not an event but a habit.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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