The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The monster was still submerged deep inside of me.

I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.