Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.