The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Very dangerous things, theories.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity and indeed the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man but if you tell people so they stare at you in bewilderment.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough they generally run away.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.