"He that is robbed, not wanting what..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”

“And makes me poor indeed.”

“As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.”

“Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.”

“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”

“If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.”

“The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.”

“She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.”