"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis"

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold"

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"

"I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is"

"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"

"Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks"

"Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"

"London is a modern Babylon"