"The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."

"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."

"Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year."

"They tire of quiet, that have known the storm"

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."

"I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending."

"People ought to be one of two things, young or dead."

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."

"[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine."

"Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart."

"If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

"I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."

"Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so."

"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."

"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."

"The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?"

"And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned."

"Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them."

"If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn."

"[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."

""Her "mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain."

"It may be that this "It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario."autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario."

"Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?"

"Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement."

"A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate."

"Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it."

"Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it."

"All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted."

"Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"

"Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi."

"Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell."

"Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!"

"Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse."

"When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly ..."

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania."

"The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."

"The definition of eternity is two people and a ham."

"[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."

"Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction."

"On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter."

"It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes."

"By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying."

"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."

"I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it."

"But I don't give up; I forget why not."

"I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money."

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice."

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."