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

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

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

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

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

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.