It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

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

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