I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.