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

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

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.

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

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

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

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.