I'd rather play a maid than be one.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I've played everything but a harp.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

I’m scared that you’ll make me love you…and then you’ll leave me.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

You trust him?" he said. "No, " said Hastur. "Right, " said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.