The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

And when the world shall listenAnd when the world shall seeAnd when the world remembersThat world shall cease to be.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

And I swear, if there is a way for us to be together, I will find it. No matter how long it takes. If I have to chase your soul to the ends of eternity, I won't stop until I find you, I promise.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)