If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.