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

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

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.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

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.