Charles Reade Quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Art is not imitation but illusion.

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort! / Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!

In players, vanity cripples art at every step.

First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.

It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress.

...even Christians loved one another at first starting.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?