Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

May be you are gone, but that doesn’t make me come back

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.