expression Quotes

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Writing bores me so.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.