Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

David Hare

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Giovanni Ruffini

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Ruskin

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

Cassandra Clare

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Horace

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Vivienne Westwood

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

Ogden Nash

For me, London is and always will be home.

Clive Owen

A lion is much more dreadful to him that never saw him, than he is to his keeper who feedeth him every day. A pitched battle is more frightful and scaring to a new listed soldier, that never took his place in the field before, nor saw the dreadful counten

Kahlil Gibran