I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.