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."

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

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.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

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

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

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