People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.