Thomas Hood

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!