"Let me, if not by birth, have..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“The icy precepts of respect.”

“Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!”

“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

“Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.”

“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.”

“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.”