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

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

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

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

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.

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