She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility

Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best.

Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.