My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.