The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.