The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.