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.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.