From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.