A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
A combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. (on Dorothy Parker).
A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.
A sensitive, creative artist with a fine sense of double-entry bookkeping. (re: Samuel Goldwyn).
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
At 83, (George Bernard) Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
I am tired of hearing that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.
I have no need of your God-damned sympathy; I wish only to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
(In a reply to a get well card).
(In a reply to a get well card).
In the world we must be unworldly, in the theater the actor must be untheatrical.
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Nothing risqué, nothing gained.
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
The two oldest professions in the world- ruined by amateurs. (re: acting and prostitution).
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
To all things clergic
I am allergic.
I am allergic.
You haven't lived until you died in New York.
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