Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

Genius is of no country.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

A joke's a very serious thing.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.