Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

An index is a great leveller.