... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety, ...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Leadership is the art of the future.

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.