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

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

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.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

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