The grace of God is courtesy.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the poeple in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfilment.

We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The grace of God is courtesy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

All doors open to courtesy.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.