Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.