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

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Make him [the reader] laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

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.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.