I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

If the choice is between two evils, it is still evil,

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

Need is never a good basis for any relationship.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.