Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.