When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

To find the universal elements enough

I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid.

I Cannot Remember You...engulfed in liquid amnesiaI cannot fight the tide

This is because secrets are terrible things. Even the simplest ones

I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

I was really attracted to doing Game of Thrones because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.