God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.