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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
It's always something to remind you that everything ain't never gonna be alright!
It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.
The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.
To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.