It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.