An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.