All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.