I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

John Cheever

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

George Bernard Shaw

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

Toba Beta

And the mercy seat is melting, And I think my blood is boiling, And in a way I'm spoiling, All the fun with all this truth and consequence. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, And anyway I told the truth, And I'm not afraid to die.

Nick Cave

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Georg Buchner

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

Heidi Klum

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Barbara Cartland