There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.