The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat.