"Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"You see things, and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and say 'Why not?"

"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."

"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements."

"i like to have a martini, two at the very most - at three i'm under the table, at four, i'm under the host!"

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

"No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist."

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."

"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."