"I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."

"'Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city."

"'Coolidge is dead' 'How could they tell?"

"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."

"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools.' That's strange; your mother could."

"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one."

"Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."

"Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits."

"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."