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.

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

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

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

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.

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.