She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

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

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.