If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.

The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.