To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.