The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

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.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.