We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

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

It does the heart good to look at you.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.