My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
Grab it while you can – grab every scrap of happiness while you can.
To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they’d have been anyway.
Wouldn’t it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn’t have tea?
Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
I don’t much care for Hollywood, I’d rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.
Christmas is at our throats again.
The higher the building the lower the morals.
You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don’t bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society.
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.
Passion in a dromedary doesn’t go so deep; a camel when it’s mating never sobs itself to sleep.
At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.