Occupation: Critic Birth: January 19, 1887 Death: January 23, 1943
Nothing risque, nothing gained..
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing..
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it..
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water..
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go..
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs..
You haven't lived until you died in New York..
To all things clergic I am allergic..
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day..
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it..
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening..
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening..
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated..
At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's..
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!.
His huff arrived and he departed in it..
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm..
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city..
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, ….
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers..
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison….