I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here...

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn’t there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he’ll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it...

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William...

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it; an amateur is one who can’t when he does feel like it.

Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Shaw’s plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

I don’t know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don’t want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and...

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn’t sex but something else.