The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

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

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

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

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.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.