If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

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.

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

Never change yourself for the sake of someone, because at the day end no one owns your sacrifices and sufferings.

And empty heads console with empty sound.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

I've been recognized in airports lots of places, but mostly getting recognized is at home.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.