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" A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. "
Head
Waiter
Sit
" At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. "
Age
Hats
Never
" Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. "
Me
Know
You
" By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. "
Door
Away
Today
" Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. "
Immortality
Form
Children
" Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. "
Comedy
Way
Serious
" Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. "
Got
You
People
" Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. "
Faith
Corruption
Nature
" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "
Good
Courage
Insight
" Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. "
Wrong
Critics
Search
" Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. "
Thought
Said
Much
" I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. "
Day
I Am
Place
" I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. "
Friends
You
Got
" If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. "
Work
He
Today
" If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. "
Saying
World
Done
" I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic. "
Children
Which
Bad
" I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. "
Find
King
Without
" I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. "
Future
Office
Where
" In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. "
America
Pressure
Freedom
" Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. "
Thought
Mistakes
Intelligent
" It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. "
Our
Ourselves
Take
" It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. "
Youth
Love
Discovered
" I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. "
Me
Always
Music
" Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. "
Laughter
Died
Snobbery
" Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. "
Forgiveness
Look
Love
" Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them. "
About
Them
Think
" Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night. "
Her
Wedding
Next
" Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. "
Duty
Prison
Out
" Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. "
Parenting
Parents
Teeth
" Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. "
Conscious
Unique
Being
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