All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

True enlightenment is when you know that you’re nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy.

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.