Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

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.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.