In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.