What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.