Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

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.

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 dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.