[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

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

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.