It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.