Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.