Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line