any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.