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.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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.
My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.