Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.

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.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.