I drink to make other people interesting.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spr...
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.
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.
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.
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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