A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

Create you own singleness, your own loneliness, and know that you know this is exactly what you are doing. And feel damn right about it.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

I want to play a Disney villainess so badly.

It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.