You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.