I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Heartache is my constant companion, and we’re perfect for one another. Two co-dependent peas in a pod. My past and my future.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

And don't put a rose in my hand. Put a slim-jim in it. Send me to heaven with a slim-jim!

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

New York ladies all look immaculate.