I never wrote an English dictionary," returned the Emperor, dryly.
"I've murdered everything but English, though." "I could have made a fine tragedy out of you," said Shakespeare.

"Just think what a dreadful climax for a tragedy it would be, Johnson, to have Nero, as the curtain fell, playing a violin solo." "Pretty good," returned the Doctor.

"But what's the use of killing off your audience that way?
It's better business to let 'em live, I say.
Suppose Nero gave a London audience that little musicale he provided at Queen Elizabeth's Wednesday night.

How many purely mortal beings, do you think, would have come out alive ?" "Not one," said Shakespeare.

"I was mighty glad that night that we were an immortal band.