Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.