I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.