Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

On one hand I'll stand up there and think I'm a pretty good storyteller but it has everything to do with the audience. Invariably, I get people telling me that…