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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others than in showing a great deal yourself.

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.