Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.