“The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.”

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

Happiness is egotistical.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She’s a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard.

I feel like I’m nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive – a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It’s the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.