“Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.”

“A place for everything, and everything in its place.”

“Careful, taking the high road causes nose bleeds, so carry tissue.”

“If you do want to wear you're heart on you're sleeve remember not to blow you're nose on it.”

“In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.”

“When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.”

“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”