Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.