"I never change, except in my affections."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

"Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore."
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte (The Fencing Master)

"Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

"They yearn for what they fear for."
— Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso)

"But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive."
— William Shakespeare (Henry V)

"I don't like using the word evil because it sounds as if that's all there is to be said about the person. I don't think Richard III is evil, I don't think it's helpful to say that...Iago he's not evil. Iago didn't get the job, he thinks his wife's been unfaithful to him, he doesn't like black people, he's extremely talented and very unfulfilled and he's a wonderful liar, and he's a mischeif maker and he does some dreadful, dreadful things. But that's already interesting, isn't it? Ooh, who is this guy? But if you just say "ah oh he's evil" how can you play that? I don't know how you play an evil person."
— Ian McKellan

"To be, or not to be: that is the question". - (Act III, Scene I)."
— Hamlet

"Lord, what fools these mortals be"
— William Shakespeare