Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.