Death is what makes life fun.
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.