Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!

Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently.

Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.

He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.

In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow