When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.