Honore de Balzac

 The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

- Honore de Balzac

Elinor Smith

 It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. 

- Elinor Smith

Charlotte Rampling

 I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves. 

- Charlotte Rampling

Michael Caine

 Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. 

- Michael Caine

Plautus

 No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. 

- Plautus

Cyrano de Bergerac

 A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

- Cyrano de Bergerac

George Bernard Shaw

 No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. 

- George Bernard Shaw

George Carlin

 When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. 

- George Carlin

H. L. Mencken

 If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. 

- H. L. Mencken

Lewis Black

 I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet. 

- Lewis Black

Clarence Darrow

 I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. 

- Clarence Darrow

John Kennedy

 Power does not change you, it unmasks you. 

- John Kennedy

Ambrose Bierce

 Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. 

- Ambrose Bierce

Nat King Cole

 The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. 

- Nat King Cole

Wernher von Braun

 Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 

- Wernher von Braun