I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.