Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?
A man's friendships are like his will invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you...
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
A good marriage is the union of the two good...
I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me...
I suppose after 'Four Weddings' I was very busy for a bit, and I imagined...