Awards

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

—Jack Benny

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

—Mark Twain

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

—George Bernard Shaw

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

—Peter Ustinov