Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

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.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

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

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.

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