“I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.”
“In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.”
“We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.”
“Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
“However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.”
“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”
“If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.”
“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
