Who said “It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together,…”?

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”

“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

“I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.”

“Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.”

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”

“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”