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

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

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

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.

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

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

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