Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability.
All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
