Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Napoleon

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Ben Barnes

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Ronald Reagan

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Simon Hoggart

Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities

Oscar Wilde

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

Steven Wright

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Johann von Goethe

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Henning Mankell

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Voltaire

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Henry Geldzahler

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Albert Einstein

Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.

Brian Bosworth