The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.