Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.