In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.

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People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

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Life is too short to work so hard.

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I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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Things are simple when you're going to die.

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Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

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I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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I will not be ignored.

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