A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.