Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.