...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Time will explain.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Best timepass for idle person is to find another and gossip, without realising that there are superlative degrees of idle, idler, and idlest.

I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me.

The best way to get what you want is to realize you already have it.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.