Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

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

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.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.