[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.