Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.