In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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

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 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.

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.