You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.