Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I cons….

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathe….

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature..

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command..

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts..

It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they u….

Writers are as jealous as pigeons..

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the churc….

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals..

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority..

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined..

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given..

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to writ….

Life has gone by as if I never lived.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written..

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something..

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him..

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some….

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance.….

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day....

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act..