“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”

“The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”

“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”

“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”

“When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”

“Its best to turn to no one, to seek to please no one, as if there were only oneself in the world. The pleasure of others is a by-product after all, and if ever the whispering voices are allowed to crowd out the one voice, the result is this...a sort of high-pitched silliness, a terrible silliness.”