Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
A play visibly represents pure existing.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
Many plays certainly mine are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness s...
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.