The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.