53 quotes
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
Who Said That? (1984)
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Quotes for All Occasions (2008)
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice.
Romanoff and Juliet (1956)
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
Romanoff and Juliet (1956)
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
Achtung! Vorurteile (2003)
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Contemporary Quotations (1969)
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
Romanoff and Juliet (1956)
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.
Dear Me (1977)
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
They need enemies, not friends, to focus their two-dimensional ideas. Life for them is a simple tune, never an orchestration, or even a pleasant harmony.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
BBC obituary (2004)
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
International Celebrity Register (1959)
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Words and Their Masters (1974)
To all those who by accident or design, have not been included in this book.
Dear Me (1977)