People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

To reduce your age, increase your experiences.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

And I wear my sunglasses at night So I can so I can Keep track of the visions in my eyes

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

The happier I am, the better my skin is. Any woman knows when they are over exerting themselves, whether it is emotionally or physically, you can see it on your face.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.