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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.
It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.