To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Books are keys that open many doors.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles, ” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.