Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.