Quotations

"Show me a man who enjoyed his schooldays and I'll show you a bully and a bore." Robert Morley

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."
Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." Truman Capote

"It is a fairly consistent law of humanity that men spend about half their lives at war. A Frenchman, called Lapouge, calculated that from the year 1100 to the year 1500, England had been 207 years at war and 212 years from 1500 to 1900. In France the corresponding figures would be 192 and 181 years. According to that same man Lapouge, nineteen million men are killed in war every century. Their blood would fill three million barrels of 180 liters each, and would feed a fountain of blood running 700 liters an hour from the beginning of history."
Dr O'Grady in Andre Maurois' The Silence of Colonel Bramble

"Reading, like all work, has its rules. A perfect knowledge of a few writers and a few subjects is more valuable than a superficial one of a great many. The fine points of a piece of writing are seldom apparent at first reading. In youth, one should search among books as one searches the world for friends, and once these friends are found, chosen, and adopted, one must go into retirement with them. Intimacy with Montaigne, Saint Simon, Retz, Balzac, or Proust would be enough to enrich one's whole life."
André Maurois

"The Church did a great thing for love by making a sin out of it." Anatole France