Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.