In oratory the will must predominate.

. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.