The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

To him that watches, everything is revealed.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.

Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

Valour that parleys is near yielding.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head The glory of morn is shed, Like a celestial benison! Here at the portal thou dost stand, And with thy little hand Thou openest the mysterious gate Into the future's undiscovered land.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.