Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.