If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.