Auditioning is always so different for different things.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid. '
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!
As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.