Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.

She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.