When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.