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.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

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

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

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.