All great art contains an element of the irrational.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund