The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

Love gives up the right to get even.

Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.