The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

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.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

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

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.