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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are.
Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?
Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.
I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret.
If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Badly gotten, badly spent. [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?
I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.
The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.