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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.
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
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.
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.
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 is but for something that he would like it to be.
Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
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.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.
Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.
