Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

The thing I don't get about paedophilia... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day.

Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out.

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.