Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding.

sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.