crisp Quotes

“Manners are love in a cool climate.”

“Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.”

“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”

“If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.”

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”

“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”

“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”

“It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.”

“For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.”

“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.”