Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.