In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Live each day with ecstatic serenity

She looked away, trying not to cry. She hated crying, and in public she hated it more.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

I don't like attacking.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.