Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
I drink to make other people interesting.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.