People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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.