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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.
The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.
There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.