Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.