Paul Scofield

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.