Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.