How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.