The best revenge is to live well.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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.