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.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

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

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.