Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

When you're safe at home, you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure, you wish you were safe at home.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate— that's my philosophy.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. That's my philosophy.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us lessof love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you whish you were safe at home.

Some say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

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.

Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity of the old woman. The mercer’s daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.