Youth is just wasted on young people.

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.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.