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

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.

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...

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.

Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is. We fall in love with someone for a reason. That reason is either temporary or permanent.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.