It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it