We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.