Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.