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.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Hell is full of musical amateurs.