People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.