English Quotes

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Smiles are the language of love.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

No one but a fool is always right.

In oratory the will must predominate.