Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The heart was made to be broken.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.