I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
The first mark of valor is defence.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room. " I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.