Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.