Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.