George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.