The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.