An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

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.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

Sometimes we have to go to the darkness alone, before we can see the light.

A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.