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

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.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

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

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.