I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously, ’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings, ' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

Envy is a surefire party killer.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land