I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.