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All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]
Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.
I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.
I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum