The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.