Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

Glances are the first billets-doux of love.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.

Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.