I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

So little done, so much to do.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

I wish you to become who you ­were born to be. To become queen.