Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there a danger of their coming true

It is the dread of something happening something unknown and dreadful that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true

There are two things to aim at in life first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.