Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.