It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.