I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.