To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.