It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Golfers don't fist fight. They cuss a bit. But they wouldn't punch anything or anybody. They might hurt their hands and have to change their grip.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

You can't suffer over two things at once.

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.

Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.