A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Placetne, magistra?" "Placet.