In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.