Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge fitter to bruise than polish.

I mean I'm pretty good in real life but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Travel and society polish one but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Society is now one polished horde formed of two mighty tries the Bores and Bored.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

I know many writers who first dictate passages then polish what they have dictated. I speak then I polish - occasionally I do windows.