There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Let's pray for grace to live heavenly on earth.

Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.