The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

I ate mythology & dreamt'- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

You should always strive to make amazing things happen in your life

People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.