The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.