An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Your Majesty—Tugging my ear. Whenever.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked

Different cultures have different audiences.

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.