#wi

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#happy #how #humour #i #i think

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#disgusted #experience #frightened #men #most

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#audience #day #different #different kinds #ever

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#brand #brand new #difficult #easy #envelope

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. ↗

— Moliere

#equal #life #lives #living #matter

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. ↗

— Moliere

#ever #everything #having #know #learned

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. ↗

— Moliere

#flees #leads #perfect #reason #sobriety

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. ↗

— Moliere

#deserve #folk #like #live #lives

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. ↗