"Memoirs of a Professional Cad"

George Sanders sets the tone of his memoir very early on in the book, while describing the practice of segregated nude bathing in Russia of his youth: 'In this manner a commendable degree of decorum was preserved within an atmosphere of genteel concupiscence.'

• Lenin was arriving full of plans for my money. I was leaving for school in England, serenely unaware of his existence.
• From his great carved bed, a .22-caliber pistol in his hangover-shaking hand, (my uncle) would shoot flies that had gathered to eat the jam he had smeared on the ceiling. Liveried footmen stood by with champagne, extra rounds of ammunition, orange marmalade and strawberry jam.
  
• The prevailing atmosphere in these brothels (in Argentina) was indistinguishable from that of a dentist's office.
  

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• I promptly accepted and have never looked forward since.
• A producer .. decided to make me a professional reindeer milker, because he figured that there would be only two people in the whole of the U.S. who would have legitimate cause for complaint.
• Then there is the man who has a pet theory that there is nothing like an evening at the theatre to cure a chest cold. With leonine roars his coughing spells burst out triumphantly to shatter the painstakingly created moments of stillness that are the quintessence of the performer's art.
  
• The only person who ever loves a critic is his mother and an actor who has had a good notice from him.
  
• In all these (other) walks of life it is recognized that as soon as you are really good at something you can get somebody else to do it for you.
  

President Wilson: "the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia"
Siege of Mafeking ^, Chaliapin ^