When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age

Francis Quarles

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

Vivienne Westwood

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

Angela Carter

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.

Mark Twain

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Usain Bolt

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles Monroe Schulz