I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?