Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.