Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years' time, exactly what we mean by 'a very Noel Coward sort of person'.

Theaters are like brothels; one never knows what he will find inside - or whom

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.