Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

If you can read this you can read me.