Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

T. S. Eliot

Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Jane Austen

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Plato

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

Elisabetta Canalis

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Walter Benjamin

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

William Hague

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Lord Drewar

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

E. Stanley Jones

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

A. N. Wilson

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher