The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Certainly it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising there's obviously a lot of deception.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger after them.