Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Old age is a woman's hell.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!

Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.