Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room.
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.
The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Well, one thing you can say for masturbation... you certainly don't have to look your best.
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.
Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.
That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.
I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.