The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.