He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.