The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness.
Don’t think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.
I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don’t need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you’d better go and talk to yourself.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Never repeat old grievances.
Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.