I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

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.

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

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

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

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