One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?