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

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

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

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

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

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

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

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

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 merely clears the brain.

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

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

There is no such thing as S CCESS without U in it!

Marketing shouldn't feel like marketing. It should feel like a story.

They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.

People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.