What the English like to do is to face reality with a…

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

— Yoshida Kenko

Memories fade. Like looking through a fogged mirror

— MGMT

“The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little.…

— Will Ludwigsen

“Memories fade like scars but they don’t disappear.”

— Anonymous

“Does this wild errant need fade, like the colour of eyes do?”

— Sue Woolfe

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

— John Cleese

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up…

— Brian Jacques

Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of…

— Jon Gordon

When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the…

— Alex Timbers

“He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here…

— Oscar Wilde

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

— Oscar Wilde

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series…

— Aldous Huxley

Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

— Darren Gough

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil…

— Frances Mayes