We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.