A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.