“Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense – adapting one-self to circumstances – and a sense of humor.”

Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn’t have to.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

In the theater, I’ve found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

I’ll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Never darken my Dior again!

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.