A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

A good teammate will correct somebody when they're doing something wrong. A friend might not say anything, a good teammate does.