“Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.”

“Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?”

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

“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”

“You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.”

“My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.”

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”