I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.