You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?