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

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

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

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

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

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."

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.