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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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