About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

I have had my vision.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.