A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such. ' 'No. I didn't. ' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have. '
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Disobedience is my joy!
I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.
[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea. ' You know, we eat - the others watch.
Well. . . you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.