In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.