To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear

Mark Twain

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, IsLove, forgive us! cinders, ashes, dust.

KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii., Line 1.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Carson Daly

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

Daniel Radcliffe

Education liberates a woman.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

Yuri Milner

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Herbert Read

He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.

Sir Henry Wotton