Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.