Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.