Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

To say nothing especially when speaking is half the art of diplomacy.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

There is nothing Sir too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has something to say when one has nothing to say however and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.