It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

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!"

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.