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

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

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.

I drink so the others become interesting.

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.

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.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.