The good thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore somebody they think it's their fault    Henry Kissinger 

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England but after sitting next to Mr Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.     Churchill's mother Jenny Jerome

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.        U.S. comedian Fred Allen 

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.   The inimitable George Burns

The one at the bottom of my posts is my favourite. It's from Arnold Bennett's 1918 novel The Pretty Lady. 

Very apt on his 170th birthday. Stephen Fry played Oscar Wilde in the 1997 film Wilde, one of those instances in which you feel the actor was born to play that part. 

Be kind to everyone on the way up, you'll meet the same people on the way down.       U.S. playwright Wilson Mizner The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.      U.S. columnist George Will A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.  Canadian writer Laurence J. Peter

The optimist invents the plane the pessimist invents the parachute      Canadian Lawrence Peter