The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.