When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

The stock actor is a stage calamity