If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.