“They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.”

Family is the only real wealth.

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.

Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

There’s no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

The stage is near and dear to me.

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.