Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.