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Dorothy Parker: He lies below,...

Dorothy Parker: He lies below,...

He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.


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Eva Peron: If I fall,...

Eva Peron: If I fall,...

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Source:...

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Susan Sontag: It is the...

Susan Sontag: It is the...

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is...

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Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Source: Ballade of a Great Weariness, Enough Rope,...

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Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.

Source: In...

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Judith Jamison: So many people...

Judith Jamison: So many people...

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to...

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Judith Rossner: He always said...

Judith Rossner: He always said...

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...

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Marilu Henner: An umeboshi plum...

Marilu Henner: An umeboshi plum...

An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . ....

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Edith Evans: Death is my...

Edith Evans: Death is my...

Death is my neighbour now.

Source: Said a week before her death. BBC radio...

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Fanny Brice: Your audience gives...

Fanny Brice: Your audience gives...

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an...

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Susan Sontag: A large part...

Susan Sontag: A large part...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a...

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Edith Sitwell: I'm patient with...

Edith Sitwell: I'm patient with...

I'm patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

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Raquel Welch: We all have...

Raquel Welch: We all have...

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage...

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Shelley Winters: I did a...

Shelley Winters: I did a...

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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P D James: There comes a...

P D James: There comes a...

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face,...

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