I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.