It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.