New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

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

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

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

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

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.

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