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

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.