"'It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.'"
Chap. 1, p. 5

"'I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.'"
Chap. 1, p. 9

"'In Africa, if a white man is disgracing himself and letting down his people the authorities pack him off home. We haven't such rights here, unfortunately.'"
Chap. 2, p. 35

"She left the room and Dennis at once forgot everything about her. He had seen her before everywhere."
Chap. 3, p. 53

"It was as though there was an amplifier concealed somewhere within him and his speech came from some distant and august studio; everything he said might have been for a peak-hour listening period...