Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.