Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

The great trues are too important to be new.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

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