Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

He's completely unspoiled by failure.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.