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.

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

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

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.