When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Those who are made can be unmade.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.

... every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

If you are not taking time to set your own goals, chances are someone else is doing it for you and that someone will be in control of you sooner.

...flames moved towards himand dropped within-singed and marred his tender skin ...(the frightful plight tale)

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.