Who said “To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”?

“The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.”

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

“The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).”

“Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.”

“Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.”

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.”

“The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”

“I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”