Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.