It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.