“A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.”

“It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.”

“You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.”

“Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.”

“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”

“I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”