The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.