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.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

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... 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.