A child is an angel dependent on man

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

A friend is never known till a man has need.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.

I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

I'll certainly be praying for Hillary Clinton, too.