It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.