"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men …"

"the great receipt for quieting a country is a good thrashing first and great kindness afterwards: the wildest chaps a…"

"Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your …"

"War is detestable and not to be desired by a nation’, adding, 'It falls not so heavily upon soldiers – it is our call…"

"Manchester is the chimney of the world. Rich rascals, poor rogues, drunken ragamuffins and prostitutes form the moral…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"