We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
That which costs little is less valued.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.