Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.