It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It's just too demoralizing and unsettling.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.

Our troubles keep us going.