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's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.