It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.