Dion Boucicault

“All the world's a stage, and the stage is a world of pasteboard.”

“Scenery is not a background; it's a participant.”

“I am an original, you know.”

“I can't afford to have a conscience.”

“Sure, life's a mixture.”

“The public is a great baby.”

“Men are not vinaigrettes to be shaken up.”

“The lawyer's vacation is the space between the question put to a witness and the answer.”

“What a wonderful thing is a woman's foot! It is the only part of her that has a sole.”

“The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.”

“A play is a machine.”

“I prefer the treason of the heart to the loyalty of the mind.”