I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original
thinking.
[on sexual politics] A desire to have all of the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, they should all retire to the workhouse.
It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.
Facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.
Books are like lobster shells: we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it - that is at the bottom of the right way to tell lies.