If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

[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.