Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as t — Mrs Patrick Campbell

"Oh dear me — its too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!"

"Thats because Tallulahs always skating on thin ice, and they want to be there when it breaks."

"I want my dark lady. I want my angel. I want my tempter, I want my Freia with her apples. I want the lighter of my seven lamps of beauty, honour, laughter, music, love, life and immortality. I want my inspiration, my folly, my happiness, my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my final sanity and sanctification, my transfiguration, my purification, my light across the sea, my palm across the desert, my garden of lovely flowers, my million nameless joys, my days wage, my nights dream, my darling and my star."

"She has such pretty little eyes — And theyre so close together!"

"The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."