In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
By her shining and her power he knew her.
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.
It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.