A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.