Richard H. Davis Quotations

I went up to see Hopper the other night, which was the first time in three months that I have been back of a theater, and it was like going home.

I am only going to make a little reputation and to learn enough of the business to enable me to live at home in the centre of the universe with you.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.

Brisbane says I will get $50 about the first of October, which is plenty and enough for a young man who intends to be good to his folks.

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.