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...

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.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes

Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do Snabba Cash, after watching The Killing, I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.