Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.

Carol Fragale Brill

Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.

Alexander Pope

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Oscar Wilde

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Marie Beyon Ray

Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.

Princess of Wales Diana

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Lynn Redgrave

Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

Anna Paquin

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Daniel Day-Lewis

A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbable story. Sir, while I believe you, someone said, you must admit that it's very wrong of truth not to condescend to be more plausible.

Nicolas Chamfort

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

Christopher Hitchens