"Christ goes deeper than I do, but I have had a wider experience."

“Casanova! My dear man, Casanova is not worthy to untie my bootstrings!”

“My dear Duke, I know nothing of the joys of homo-sexuality. You must speak to my friend Oscar about that. And yet, if Shakespeare had asked me, I would have had to submit.”

“Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country," said laughing, "so education is the curse of the acting classes.”

“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.”

“Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.”

“The pleasure of being with you is in the clash of personality, the intellectual battle, the war of ideas. To survive you one must have a strong brain, an assertive ego, a dynamic character. In your luncheon-parties, in old days, the remains of the guests were taken away with the débris of the feast. I have often lunched with you in Park Lane and found myself the only survivor.”