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"There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates."
"If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat"
"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."
"We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead."
"I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat"
"You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery."
"To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer."
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
"My specialty is being right when other people are wrong."
"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you."
"Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character."
"There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error."
"A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows."
"Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman."
"Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty."