Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

Great men learn from their weaknesses, and learn to use their strengths.Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses, and underuse their strengths.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.