Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

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.

On famous relatives - First I was my mother's daughter..and now..I am my daughter's mother !

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast.

I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.