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

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

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.

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?

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

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