A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

But are there not many Fascists in your country?' 'There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes'.

Ernest Hemingway

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Carly Fiorina

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn, Margot Fonteyn:

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

William Ames

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

John Dryden

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

John Bytheway

(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.

Christopher Hitchens

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

Julie Christie