It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

I think we all have the germ of every other person inside of us.

[When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.