In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.