We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.