Quotes to inspire and reflect

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.