"[Edward] Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow and poisons our literary club for me. I class him among infidel wasps and venomous insects."

James Boswell
(10/29/1740 – 05/19/1795)
Scottish biographer

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Queen Marie of Romania
(10/29/1875 – 07/10/1938)
Romanian royalty

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."

Jean Giraudoux
(10/29/1882 – 01/31/1944)
French writer

"Wet she’s a star. Dry she ain’t."

Fanny Brice
(10/29/1891 – 05/29/1951)
US actor, on Esther Williams

"If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction."

Paul Joseph Goebbels
(10/29/1897 – 05/01/1945)
German propagandist

"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."

William H. Mauldin
(10/29/1921 – )
US cartoonist

"People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!"

Richard Dreyfuss
(10/29/1947 – )
US actor

"I feel my best when I'm happy." Winona Ryder
(10/29/1971 – )
US actor (from Petaluma, CA)