Луна и шесть пенсов

"That's a damned silly thing to say. Everyone doesn't want to act like me. The great majority are perfectly content to do the ordinary thing."

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Характер человека отчетливо проступает в игре

..Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart...

It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.