I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.