My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversations; that is what I call good company.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie EbnerEschenbach

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Fred A. Allen

I shall desire and I shall findThe best of my desires;The autumn road, the mellow windThat soothes the darkening shires.And laughter, and inn-fires.

Rupert Brooke, The Chilterns

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

Joan Collins

But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Michael Phelps

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Amy Tan

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Warren Mitchell

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

William Bligh

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Mason Cooley

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits

William Shakespeare