In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
A man is a lion in his own cause.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.
With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.
I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.
Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
When you're my size in the pros, fear is a sign that you're not stupid.
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.
There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle, it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.