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!

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.

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.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Hopelessness is only a puzzle, and your task is to find hope

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Strategic air assault is wasted if it is dissipated piecemeal in sporadic attacks between which the enemy has an opportunity to readjust defenses or recuperate.

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

The Navy is very old and very wise.