Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

At the end of the day, there's probably nothing that makes me feel better than junk food and reality TV.

You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.

I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.