A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.