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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

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

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.