I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.
She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-
Death keepes no Calender.
The first movie I can remember ever seeing was Hard Times with Charles Bronson and James Coburn. My dad also introduced me to the likes of Jimmy Cagney. . . John Garfield. . . Robert Ryan. . . Steve McQueen. . . James Caan. . . Those are my fondest memories.