Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Genius is sorrow's child.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
A person preaches well that lives well.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.