A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.