Quote #778
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Quote #5935
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Quote #12365
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of...
Quote #6187
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or...
Quote #25157
One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for...
Quote #3689
I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Quote #5347
I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.
Quote #5010
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby,...
Quote #24995
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Quote #31745
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And...