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

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

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

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.

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.

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