It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.

All that I seen makes be fear the Lord, for great is wrath.

The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...”Leione

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.