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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.
I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.
There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.
If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.
Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?
I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.