My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.
All bayonets are bad.
Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
Things are seldom what they seem.