I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.