Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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

Be yourself, because others are already taken.