It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

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!"

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.