Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'