Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I do love cricket - it's so very English.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Legend remains victorious in spite of history.' Read More Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Tom Rachman: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I do love cricket - it's so very English.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Sarah Bernhardt: 'Legend remains victorious in spite of history.' Read More
Sophocles 12/20/23 Sophocles 12/20/23 Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.' Read More