Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.