The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

First thoughts are not always the best.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

most hated by the dark, for their name is light.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.