I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

...once again I saw that incredulous question, that dawning hope: We are not alone, then? We have brothers in other places? We have friends we never knew?

The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness

I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?