Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.