A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.