The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

That was one tiny trailer when both girls wanted to watch TV or use the computer or the bathroom at the same time.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

Life really is very brief.

Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.