There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

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.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.