Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.