I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining..

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing..

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal..

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing..

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar..

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the ….

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound..

I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing in….

Criticism is prejudice made plausible..

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that..

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a ve….

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose..

I think it would be a good idea..

I would have made a good pope..

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quic….

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade..

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people….

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker..

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair..

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty..

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics..