It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.