In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
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.
Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.