Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

That which you believe becomes your world

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.