“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”

“For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.”

“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”

“Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.”

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”

“The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.”

“Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!”

“Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you’re a Londoner, is that it’s better not to die at all.”

“One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.”