Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

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.

Never fear [the audience] or despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all … never, never, never bore the hell out of it.

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.

Poor little rich girl.

She had much in common with Hitler, only no moustache.

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

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The most I’ve had is just