I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.