It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. Tallulah Bankhead
Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you. Mae West
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. J M Barrie
Diary, n. A daily record of that part of one’s life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Ambrose Bierce
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it, invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it! Ellen Terry
In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say ‘Did he leave a will?’, but ‘Did he leave a diary?’ Liza Minelli
I do not keep a dairy. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit. Enoch Powell