We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.