A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

He who hath many friends hath none.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

We are so very ‚umble.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

If music be the food of love, play on.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

A right delayed is a right denied.