He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Out of too much learning become mad.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

We all fall on hard times, ” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world