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.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Property is organized robbery.