When I was young, I don't know how, I spent all my time in the presence of married women telling me their troubles. And when I said 'Why did you marry?' they said, 'Oh I married to get away from home.' And when I said, 'And why don't you leave him?' they gave the saddest answer in the world: they said, 'Where would I go?' So they stayed with men they didn't like because they had nowhere to go.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.