The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.