Experience is a question of instinct about life.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

All things on Ishtar are magical, Dragonheart.

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in Heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.