Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Significance is sweet.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.