Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Life is a school of probability.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.