Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.