I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.