Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

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.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

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.

Art is the sex of the imagination.