We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

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

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.