The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

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.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.

It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.