The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.