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.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

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

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