And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Margaret Cavendish

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
Jeffrey Archer

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
Ninette de Valois

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.
Emma Thompson

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
Mathias Rust

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.
Gerard Depardieu

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Oswald Chambers

I have learnt to be even more patient.
Roger Federer

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
Natasha Richardson

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
Jeffrey Archer

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
Van Morrison

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Lionel Blue

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Diane Cilento

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
Maria Monk

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Quentin Tarantino

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.
John Newcombe