Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.