Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.