Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

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Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.