Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously, ’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings, ' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.