Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity., John Brown,
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person., Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935), US humorist, novelist, short story author, wit (1835 1910)
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good., P. G. Wodehouse, British humorist novelist in US (1881 1975)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch., Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962, US movie actress (1908 1989)
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed., Antoine de SaintExupery, The Little Prince, French writer (1900 1944)
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward., Phillips Brooks, US Episcopal bishop (1835 1893)