The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.
London Sunday Correspondent
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.
Ellen Terry
I am not an eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.