The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.