Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.
Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.
I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.