On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

Psychoanalysis, a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

What is a historian? Someone who doesn’t write well enough to work on a daily.

Not greeting people isn’t enough. One also doesn’t greet people one doesn’t know.

Progress makes purses out of human skin.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won’t bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct.