Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.