Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

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.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

I am a huge believer in social media.