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.

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

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.