Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness, ' but a lot of fighters go overboard.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.