If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

Where you go, he'll go, " Stebbs said."I know it.""Tough caring about people, isn't it?"... "Wouldn't trade it, " she said.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

You can't surprise a man with a dog.

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless.