The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Stay away from the ropes

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.