Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

André Gide

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

William Shakespeare

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

Suzanne Lafollette

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Germaine Greer

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Dan Stevens

Without discipline, there is no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

George Eliot

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

Chuck Palahniuk