I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.