Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

I carried around five tons of pain where she used to be.

It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.