A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

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

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

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.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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