I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.