It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

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

One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.