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

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

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

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.

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.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

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