“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

“I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.”

“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

“Live well. It is the greatest revenge.”

“A woman can be anything the man who loves here would have her be.”

“Birth was the death of him.”

“Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.”