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

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.