I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

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

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.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings.

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

Kim Kardashian is saddled with a huge arse ... but enough about Kanye West

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.