Boris

“They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously," he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it from the depths.
As it creaked up, Blackadder said, "That's not the worst thing a human being can do, take himself seriously.”
― A. S. Byatt

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
― Mark Twain

“إن أخرست الحقيقة ودفنتها تحت الأرض فسوف تَنْمو وتُنبِت”
― إميل زولا

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand