"I have known many persons who turned their gold into smoke, but you are the first to turn smoke into gold." Queen Elizabeth I
"Sex... the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders." Walter Bagehot
"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." Jules Verne
"'A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded,' he said, 'for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.'"
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"The reminiscences of Mrs. Humphrey Ward ... convinced me that autobiography is a sin."
"So that's what hay looks like."
"As God once said, and I think rightly..."
"No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution."