The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.