Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.

Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

Wise girls kiss but never love, Listen but never believe, And leave befor they are left.

I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.