Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Maude Ruth Gordon
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
Alexander Woollcott
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Greta Garbo
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.
Mary Todd Lincoln
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Anton Chekhov
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Garson Kanin
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
Spencer Tracy
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
He touched me...
Control myself and try to act
As if I remember my name
But he touched me...he touched me...
And suddenly nothing is the same!
Ira Levin
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
George B Mere
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves