Perspective Quotes

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition.

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

In the end, everything is a gag.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.