"His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets."

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania."

"The only 'ism' hollywood believes in is plagiarism."

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires."

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."

"Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses."

"That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say 'No' in any of them."

"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us."

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."

"Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated"

"As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back."

"We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."