When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. only a man can paint this picture.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.
She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
“Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.”
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Out in hollywood, where the streets are paved with goldwyn....
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Thinking is the hardest work of all, and that's why so few of us do it.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
You can't whine and bellyache because somebody else got a good break and you didn't.
It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.