Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

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

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

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 say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.