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.

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

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

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.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

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.

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