No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.