Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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

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

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.