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

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.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.