The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
An appreciative listener is always stimulating.
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.