- When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
- Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.
- The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
- If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means the disease is incurable.
- A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages: first an acquaintance, then a mistress, and only then a friend.
- Man as a species isn't very well-constructed... in the vast majority of cases, he's coarse, stupid and profoundly unhappy.
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular it is not monotonous, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.
- People don't notice whether it's summer or winter when they're happy.
- It is necessary that on the stage everything should be as complex and as simple as in life. People are having dinner, and while they're having it their future happiness may be decided or their lives may be about to be shattered.
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