And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years?

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end