a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.