Humor is the harmony of the heart.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Love the horses, but don't ride on them! Riding the horses is a culture, a wrong culture!

Food, clothes and shelter have no politics.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.