It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

There is always time for failure

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.