I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

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

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

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!"

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage