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

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.

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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

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

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

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