In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

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

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

The best thing to gift yourself is to be just YOURSELF, improving above the person that you were yesterday.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.