Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

- Alec-Tweedie

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

- Alec-Tweedie

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

- Alec-Tweedie

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

- Alec-Tweedie

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

- Alec-Tweedie

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

- Alec-Tweedie

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no obje…

- Alec-Tweedie

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

- Alec-Tweedie

Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely…

- Alec-Tweedie