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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

Work is much more fun than fun.

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions
crushing them down desperately!

Entering an white tie and tails party wearing an ordinary suit, he announced,Please, I don't want anyone to apologize for over dressing.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

Las Vegas:
It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society.

Grab it while you can - grab every scrap of happiness while you can

I will accept anything in the theatre ... provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

People have died from hiccups, you know.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

[Garry Essendine]: That is no prostitute, but the wife of one of my best friends!

I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

CHRISTMAS is at our throats again.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty ... and how few by dishonesty.

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

There's always something fishy about the French.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

It's never too early for a cocktail.

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

It'll never get well if you pick it.

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.

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

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining.

She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

Work is more fun than fun.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

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

It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

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

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn't it? You've got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.

Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed grill.

Strange how potent cheap music is.

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

Bed is the perfect climate.

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

A.E. Matthews ambled through This Was a Man like a charming retriever who has buried a bone and can't quite remember where.

Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!

Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

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

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
That though the English are effete
They're quite impervious to heat.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

He's completely unspoiled by failure.