English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou.

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

The gods help them who help themselves.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.