We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.