Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.