If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.