“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

Yes, I’ve kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that’s it. I don’t go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

I’m a cat, and you have to earn my trust.

When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.