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.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

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.

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.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

I drink to make other people interesting.

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.