Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Bad manners make a journalist.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.