Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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

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

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

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

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.