What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress