“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.

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

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.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.

I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.