Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.