I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.
It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.