The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?