She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham
She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache. -- Noel Coward
She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you just know bite an apple every day. -- Cecil Beaton (about Katherine Hepburn)
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people. -- Robertson Davies
She has breasts of granite and a mind like a Gruyere cheese. -- Billy Wilder (about Marilyn Monroe)
She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age. -- Oscar Levant
She is a peacock in everything but beauty. -- Oscar Wilde
She is a water bug on the surface of life. -- Gloria Steinem
She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else. -- Elsa Lanchester
She looked like a huge ball of fur on two well-developed legs. -- Nancy Mitford
She looks like she combs her hair with an eggbeater. -- Louella Parsons
She looks like something that would eat its young. -- Dorothy Parker
She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation. -- Jean Webster
She never was really charming till she died. -- Terence
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. -- Michael Arlen
She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it. -- Bob Fosse
She preserved to the age of fifty-six that contempt for ideas which is normal among boys and girls of fifteen. -- Odell Shepherd (about Louisa May Alcott)
She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt the mixture at all her friends. -- Harold Nicholson
She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. -- Dorothy Parker (about Katherine Hepburn)
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. -- Heinrich Heine
She should get a divorce and settle down. -- Jack Paar
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig. -- Margot Asquith
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. -- Margot Asquith
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered. -- James Matthew Barrie
She was a master at making nothing happen very slowly. -- Clifton Fadiman
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers. -- Alexander Woollcott
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. -- Saul Bellow
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. -- Jonathan Swift
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name. -- Alan Bennett
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. -- Tobias George Smolett
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee later than others. -- Kin Hubbard
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. -- Joseph Heller "Catch-22"
Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. -- William Dean Howells
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Stay with me; I want to be alone. -- Joey Adams
Teflon brain (nothing sticks.) -- Lily Tomlin
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. -- - Moses Hadas
That's not writing, that's typing. -- Truman Capote
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. -- Douglas Adams
The best part of you ran down your mother's legs. -- Jackie Gleason
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg. -- Edmund Wilson
The finest woman that ever walked the streets. -- Mae West
The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle
The greatest thing since they reinvented unsliced bread. -- William Keegan
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. -- Joseph Stilwell
The tautness of his face sours ripe grapes. -- William Shakespeare
The triumph of sugar over diabetes. -- George Jean Nathan
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw