When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.

I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

When you make a film, you come to say something.

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Whoever said blondes have more fun hasn't met me.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.