Francis Beaumont

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.