So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.