My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.