I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.

May God give you inner peace, joy and happiness.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.