The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

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

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

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

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.