I still remember his comment about Shakespere, delivered grandeloquently: he was a poucher, a philanderer, and a bounder, but he had one quality that you and I don't have: genius! As he said genius, his arm went up into the air, and his entire body seem to ascend from the floor.
And then it was on to Edna Vicent Millay, whom in a deep voice suffused with disdain in said: "ah, EVN, that epitomy of superficial emotional froth!"