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It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.
The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius ...
The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.
[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs
apart from discernment
a certain greatness to find him.
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.
Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government ...
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.
The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue ... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
