A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

Teach us to care and not to care

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.