"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."

"Follow your honest convictions and be strong."

"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

"There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa."

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

"We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs."

"And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did."

"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

"It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it."

"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult."

"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?"

"Life is the soul's nursery -Its training place for the destinies of eternity."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion."

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new."

"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

"I leave before being left. I decide."

"French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity."

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."

"I'm not made to be a mother."

"I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child."

"I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it."

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."

"I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being."

"I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel."

"I don't think when I make love."

"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."

"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."

"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."

"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."

"I have not always loved wisely, but I was young."

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"I know what sin is."

"It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be."

"Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

"I never do anything by chance."

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."

"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity."

"My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

"Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law."

"I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals."

"I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot."

"People are forever finding something wrong with you."

"I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen."

"I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing."