"You had better have one King than five hundred."
King Charles II(05/29/1630 – 02/06/1685)
English royalty
"You had better have one King than five hundred."
King Charles II
"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures."
Sir Humphrey Davy
"Quite ignorant for his rank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance."
General Winfield Scott
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G. K. Chesterton
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'"
Beatrice Lillie
"I must say the Senator's victory in Wisconsin was a triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anyone else."
Bob Hope
"The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic."
T. H. White
"He is like a man who sits on a stove and then complains that his backside is burning."
W. S. Gilbert
"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."
Pamela Hansford Johnson
"You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure."
John F. Kennedy
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."
John Barrymore
"I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked."
Fanny Brice
"For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me."
Danny Elfman
"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."
Annette Bening
"They should be shot."
Noel Gallagher
"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
John Gunther
"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
"One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little."
Margaret Chase Smith
"I married Vincent Price very late in both our lives. It was chiefly because, even if Vincent can be a bit moody and frightening at times, loneliness is even more frightful. Without a husband, even an actress doesn't get invited out much."
Coral Browne
"I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine."
Barry Goldwater
