Life is a great disappointment.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.