Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.