"Let us invent a character, a nice respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the…"

"A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."

"Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the Frenc…"

"His best works will long be studied as models of playwriting and also as mirrors of the times. Rattigan can capture t…"

"Undoubtedly, Rattigan can capture the surface of life; many critics would add that he is all surface, that his works …"

"It was often assumed that Rattigan was simply a purveyor of good middlebrow entertainment... Yet his whole world is a…"

"He was a great playwright who understood better than most the inequality of passion and the fear of emotional express…"

"It's a masterpiece of understatement but then we're rather good at understatement, aren't we?"

"He appeared to be a complete model of the conforming upper-class Englishman just as his works appear to be perfect sp…"

"Kenneth: If you’re so hot, you'd better tell me how to say she has ideas above her station. Brian: Oh, yes, I forgot.…"