Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.