Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

My life would be sour grapes and ashes without you

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Her eyes narrowed, but she wasn't yelling.I think she liked me... kind of. The way a mother would like an annoying spastic two year old who belonged to someone else.

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.