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

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.

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.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit