Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.