Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.