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

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

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

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

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

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.

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