That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

How can you capture the sympathies of the audience unless you have a small man, fighting against a bigger one?

A man in public life expects to be sneered at-it is the fault of his elevated sitiwation, and not of himself.

'I know everyone will say 'Nijinsky has gone mad', but I don't care because I have already played the mad man at home. That is what everyone will think, but th…

I used to look at homeless peopleand try to imagine what they had once looked like. It's not easy. Beneath the grime and degradation is a face once adored by s…

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.