It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

Western man is schizophrenic.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.