Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

Frustration is the mother of risk.

The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.

Plots are for dead people.

I don’t believe in following a path set by others. You have to create a path for yourself.

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.