Playwright quotes

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

The bastard! He doesn't exist!

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

A good folly is worth what you pay for it.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.