← The Quotebook
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“It takes five hundred small details to add up to one favourable impression.”
Cary Grant · 1967 · essay
On dress and the discipline behind an apparently effortless wardrobe.
On the same subject.
“You know, I’m too old for this sort of evening.”
Cary Grant as Philip Adams · 1958
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
Cary Grant · 1958
“Elsie Mendl was a great friend of mine for many, many years. And I remember the creed by which she lived: Never complain, never explain.”
Cary Grant · 1964
“Hello, friends and enemies.”
Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven · 1940