The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Fear is choosing the safe course

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!