She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

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.

Writing something new is an effective way to get rid of writer's block. Or you can observe the people around you and fantasize like I do.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

I’m going to go out there and wait until you two are dressed. (Tiernan) Why don’t you keep walking until you get to the other side of the front door? (Adron)

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.