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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.