Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

[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.

Women and elephants never forget.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.