Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.
To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn’t.
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.
It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
Be commonplace and creeping and you’ll be a success.
I would rather worry without need than live without heed.
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that’s the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
A writer’s inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.