Altogether, Olympia thinks the sight of herself satisfactory, but not beautiful: a smile is missing, a certain light about the eyes. For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'mNarcissus.

Steven Wright

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Groucho Marx

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Robert Morgan

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Jennifer Ellison

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

William Shakespeare

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English

George Bernard Shaw

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo

When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.

Anon.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

Leonard Maltin

For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?

Desiderius Erasmus

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin