There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

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