I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. |
I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. |
I like men who have a future and women who have a past |
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. |
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. |
I live in fear of not being misunderstood |
I love acting. It is so much more real than life. |
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. |
I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. |
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement |
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe |
I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. |
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. |
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. |
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. |