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

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

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

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

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

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

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