I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

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.

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.