I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Those whom the gods love grow young.