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 poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

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.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.