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

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

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.

Old age is women's hell.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

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.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.