"I always admired you for doing your duty and taking care of our elderly parents even though you were adopted. You put Masha to shame in my opinion.... Of course she had a successful acting career and you basically didn't have anything else to do."

Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband

"How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished."

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

Anthony: "People don't appeal to me that much."

Rosemary: "That's normal. Who likes people? Nobody."

Outside Mullingar

"Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof. Is there? Is there, baby?"

Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof