In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.