Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Oscar Wilde

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

James Buchan

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Kin Hubbard

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Iain Banks

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

Chris Martin

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

John Paul Stevens

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Henrik Ibsen

United we stand, divided we fall.

George Pope Morris

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach othersand less trouble. - speech, 1906

Mark Twain

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Alexander Pope

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal

Oscar Wilde

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

William Shakespeare