"You have delighted us long enough."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."

"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."

"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."

"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up."

"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't."

"When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings."

"More light! Give me more light!"

"I woke up one morning thinking about Turkish drummers, but it didn't last long, because I didn't know much about Turkish drummers."