An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Share them with only people who can help you with information and support. When you meet negative people, zip your mouth.

When you leave where God is sending you to somewhere else, your star will varnish. A lesson to learn here....don't go to Herod's house when you are looking for Jesus.

Nope, there wasn't any getting out of this. Real first name meant business.

Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!

You say we worship the sun

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?