There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

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.

Stop waiting for someone else to run your life. Get into the driver's seat and choose your destination.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

Are you talking to her or me, because I just can't tell

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.