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There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.
When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various
Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.
We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.
Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.