“Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance.”

He has a heart of gold – only harder.

When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too.

Aren’t grown up people just little children at heart?

I’m a Red-baiter; I’m a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it.

All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter’s dream.

In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me.

I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?