It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.