... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Wine gives one 'ideas, ' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

I'm always working on many new projects that I can't talk about because of NDA's.

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.