The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.