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

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.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

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

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.

I drink so the others become interesting.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.