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I know that you can act me off the stage, but we get on together like a house on fire, and when you do go into management I think we'd make a pretty good team. [32] I don't care. I'd rather marry him and be a failure than be a success and married to somebody else. [40] A woman attracts men by her charm and hold them by their vices ... [113] Only a woman knows what a woman can do. [134] No, they don't, they mean pain and anguish, shame, ecstasy, heaven and hell; they mean the sense of living more intensely, and unutterable boredom; they mean freedom and slavery; they mean peace and unrest. [149] Oh, my dear, life is so short and love is so transitory. The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want. [193] The bitterness of life is not death, the bitterness of life is that love dies. [196] It's our weakness, not our strength, that endears us to those who love us. [217] If one stripped you of your exhibitionism, if one took yo...

Theatre  (Vintage, 1937; 242): Julia Lambert is a famous actress. She and her husband, Michael Gosselyn - also an actor and manager, had been together ever since they met at an acting academy. Julia was attracted by Michael's beauty and genteelness and was determined to become married to him at all cost. So much was she in love with Michael, who was rather dumb and blind to her schemes, that she was prepared to marry him and become a failed actress. However, Michael's dumbness was a resolve not to have any amorous relationship with any of the actresses he works with. To him it was purely work and nothing more. With persistent schemes and open demonstration of her love, the two finally married and worked their way into the heart of London's theatre enthusiasts. So even though Michael was not a great actor, only drawn to his audience by his exceptional beauty, he was able to get the best out of Julia, for there was nothing he knew not about acting. Things were rosy, beau...