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.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can

Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.